La Santa Muerte in Mexico : History, Devotion, and Society /

This book examines La Santa Muerte's role in people's daily lives and explores how popular religious practices of worship and devotion developed around a figure often associated with illicit activities.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Pansters, W. G. (Wil G.) (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2019.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Santa Muerte > (Mexican deity)
Death > Religious aspects.
Death (Personification)
Mort (Personnification)
Mort > Aspect religieux.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1.La Santa Muerte: History, Devotion, and Societal Context / Wil G. Pansters
  • 2.Saints and Demons: Putting La Santa Muerte in Historical Perspective / Benjamin T. Smith
  • 3.Dances of Death in Latin America: Holy, Adopted, and Patrimonialized Dead / Juan Antonio Flores Martos
  • 4.La Santa Muerte as Urban Staging: Notes on the Images and Visibility of a Transgressive Performance / Anne Huffschmid
  • 5.Moving In and Moving Out: On Exchange and Family in the Cult of La Santa Muerte / Regnar Kristensen
  • 6.Devotion That Goes Skin Deep: Tattoos of La Santa Muerte / Bernardo Robles Aguirre
  • 7.Afterword: Interpreting La Santa Muerte / Claudio Lomnitz.

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